Amaz Wins IEM Shenzhen

Amaz Wins IEM Shenzhen

Article:Hayl_Storm

Graphics:IEM

July 18th, 2014 14:54 GMT

Amaz sweeps Azeri 3-0 to claim another major title.

Well, he's done it again. Liquid`Amaz continued adding to his streak of wins today by taking down IEM Shenzhen. Amaz's clean run through the finals came off the back of his Druid deck, but the star of Day 3 was undoubtedly his signature Priest. Priest was the final deck which Amaz chose in the semi-finals against Rdu when down 2-1. Anduin -- and Rag -- pulled through under Amaz's leadership as he was able to claw his into the finals despite some tense moments.

One of the interesting constants throughout Amaz's recent tournament victories is his Priest deck. This deck is becoming an interesting storyline in and of itself since nobody else in the pro-level meta is giving it a chance. For sure there is the fact that Amaz has put untold hours into this deck, but it is clearly showing some consistency. With the impending release of Naxx, we may never see how this would fully play out since the meta will change. It will be interesting, however, to see if other pros give Priest a shot in tournaments once the dust settles.

On July 19 2014 01:49 Iplaythings wrote:Calling bs on the rag rng in the warrior game to me seems odd since he didn't get any shadow word death which he desperately needed.

He literally spent an entire turn to heal his opponent grommash to try and draw an answer (1 of 2 holy fires or 1 of 2 shadow word deaths), atleast the rag favored him.

I tend to agree with that. People remember the lucky Ragnaros shot but forget that he had so many cards that could save him leading up to this point in the game and just couldn't draw them. It balances out in the long run.

Edit 2: And after the rest of this post, as if he reads this, CONGRATULATIONS AMAZ!